Master's Degree in Investigation, Crime and International Security

The study plan includes labs focused on security management, critical event management, intelligence and analysis of geopolitical areas, and EU project management.

The Security Management and Intelligence Lab enables students to acquire specific skills thanks to their proactive involvement in dealing with topics such as security management, intelligence, and critical event management. The Lab includes the simulation of situations and events requiring a quick and efficient response in order to ensure the security of people and assets and minimise the losses resulting from terrorist attacks (including those carried out with unconventional tools).

The Analysis of Geopolitical Areas Lab enables students to identify the most significant politically unstable areas and to analyse different areas using comparable social, cultural, political, military and ethnic parameters. For each area students will use relevant indicators and analyse their trends in both the recent past and today. They will also attempt to predict their evolution in the medium term. The Lab programme also includes the analysis of the consequences possibly arising from tensions in one area that may have a negative effect on Italy and other EU members. Such effects include: humanitarian emergencies, uncontrolled migration flows, and threats to Italian political, economic or industrial interests.

The EU Project Management Lab is fully taught in English and enables students to acquire the fundamental rules of EU project management as well as the technical tools offered by the European Union. The Lab allows students to explore access to EU funds by learning how to formulate project ideas, how to identify the budget, how to prepare a draft of the project, and how to search for international partners in order to participate in calls proposed by the EU.

The Crisis Communication Lab enables students to acquire specific skills aimed at effectively managing sudden critical events of various kinds, such as natural disasters and seismic, terrorist, chemical or biological pollution risks. The Lab focuses on the prevention and contrast of these factors and their potential global implication, with a particular attention paid to the strategies for contrasting and communicating critical issues. Techniques to promptly react to the attack and to minimize both response times and the possibility of making mistakes are addressed.

The Master's Degree in Investigation, Crime and International Security allows students to join institutions and organisations operating in the field of the investigation, prevention and repression of crime, also at a transnational level, as well as in the field of the repression of ideologically or religiously motivated terrorism. Graduates will be able to join public authorities and institutions operating at an international, European, national, regional and local level, as well as private companies, research centres, and NGOs. They will be able to cover functions linked to:

• strengthening national and international security;
• designing and managing activities aiming at preventing and fighting organised crime and ideologically or religiously motivated terrorism;
• designing and managing activities aiming at analysing criminal phenomena and preventing criminal behaviours;
• participating in EU projects.

The normal requirement for admission to the master’s degree in Investigation, Crime and International Security (LM-52) is one of the following qualifications: a bachelor’s degree, or any international certificate or diploma which provides access to university programmes in accordance with the regulations of the country in question in the following degree courses:

All students enrolling in this degree programme must meet the following requirements: ex D.M. 270/04: L-5; L-6; L-8; L-10; L-11; L-12; L-14; L-16; L-18; L-19; L-20; L-24; L-31; L-33; L-36; L-37; L-39; L-40; L-41; L-42; LMG/01; DS/1; L/DS. All students with a bachelor's degree in a subject not previously mentioned must meet the entry requirements defined in the course guidance.

All students with a bachelor's degree in a subject not previously mentioned must meet the following requirements:

• at least 8 ECTS in the SSD L-LIN / 12 or linguistic certification attesting the knowledge of the English language equal or superior to B1;
• A total of 30 ECTS obtained in at least three of the following fields with a minimum threshold of 6 ECTS for each of the fields involved:
  1. sociology (SPS / 07 General sociology; SPS / 08 Sociology of cultural and communicative processes; SPS / 09 Sociology of economic and labour processes; SPS / 10 Sociology of the environment and the territory; SPS / 11 Sociology of political phenomena ; SPS / 12 Sociology of law, deviance and social change);
  2. historical-political field (SPS / 02 History of political doctrines; SPS / 03 History of political institutions; SPS / 04 Political science; SPS / 06 History of international relations; M-STO / 02 Modern history; M-STO / 03 Eastern European History; M-STO / 04 Contemporary History);
  3. law (IUS / 01 Private law; IUS / 09 Institutions of public law; IUS / 10 Administrative law; IUS / 13 International law; IUS / 14 European Union law; IUS / 21 Comparative public law);
  4. economics (SECS-P / 01 Political economy; SECS-P / 02 Economic policy; SECS-P / 06 Applied economics; SECS-P0 / 7 Business economics; SECS-P / 08 Business management).

In any case, you can ask the Presidency of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociopsychological Dynamicsto verify that you meet all the entry requirements by sending an email, including as an attachment, a copy of your Bachelor's degree and all the exams you have passed, to presidenza.scipol@unint.eu.